Certain stereotypes can be associated with people from different countries. For example, the Italians are expected to be emotional, the Germans functional, and the Chinese hard-working. In this study, we cluster all 15-year-old students representing the 68 different nations and territories that participated in the latest Programme for…

The Major Field Test in Business (MFT-B), a standardized assessment test of business knowledge among undergraduate business seniors, is widely used to measure student achievement. The Educational Testing Service, publisher of the assessment, provides data that allow institutions to compare their own MFT-B performance to national norms, but that…

This article examines what ideas college students have, ideas that are characteristic of the culture of Russia, concerning the norms of distributive fairness as they apply to different types of situations. Problems revolving around fairness in the sphere of distribution have traditionally been of relevance in Russian social studies. The authors'…

Over the past few years Research Data Services (RDS), part of the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), has led numerous large-scale, longitudinal projects. Feedback to schools has been provided for all of these projects, and has been in the form of sets of tables and charts and electronic files illustrating pupil performance and…

THIS REPORT PRESENTS NATIONAL NORMATIVE DATA ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENTERING COLLEGE FRESHMEN OF 1966 AND COMPARATIVE DATA ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDENTS ENTERING DIFFERENT TYPES OF INSTITUTIONS. THE METHOD USED FOR SELECTING THE SAMPLE OF 251 INSTITUTIONS IS BRIEFLY SUMMARIZED. A STUDENT INFORMATION FORM WAS GIVEN TO 254,480…

THE DATA PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT WERE COMPILED IN CONJUNCTION WITH A PROGRAM OF LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH INITIATED BY THE OFFICE OF RESEARCH OF THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (ACE). THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM, INCLUDING THE SAMPLING TECHNIQUE AND OTHER TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS WERE PRESENTED IN AN EARLIER REPORT (ACE RESEARCH REPORT, VOLUME 2,…

This report presents trend data from 1976 to 1986 on the number, demographic characteristics, and fields of specialization of education doctorate recipients. Intended users include education program planners, education policy analysts, and education administrators. Charts and text also present information regarding institutions awarding education…

Research findings on the black student and on predominantly Negro institutions of higher education in the US have clarified 2 sets of facts: (1) less than 6% of all students currently enrolled in US colleges are black, whereas almost 12% of the US college-age population are black, and (2) more than two-fifths of the black students attend…

This report presents national normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time freshmen during the summer and fall of 1970. It is the 5th in a series of annual reports and part of an ongoing longitudinal research program conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education. The data are reported…

The data in this report were compiled as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program being conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education to assess the impact of different types of college environments on students' development, and to provide up-to-date source of data about the population of US college…

National normative data on the characteristics of students entering colleges as first-time, full-time freshmen in 1969 are presented in this annual report, the fourth in a series developed as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program being conducted by the Office of Research of the American Council on Education. The program's major…

Paper documents how changes in the distribution of black college students are affecting the nation's predominantly black colleges. (Author/CB)

This is the eighth annual report of national normative data on characteristics of students entering college as first-time, fulltime freshmen. Data are based on responses from 189,733 freshmen entering 360 institutions to the Student Information Form (SIF), the survey instrument. The SIF is designed to elicit a wide range of biographic and…

For this normative survey of graduate students, questionnaires were sent to 51,429 students at 158 sample institutions that have graduate programs in academic and technical areas that lead primarily to master's and doctoral degrees. Sixty-six percent or 33,511 returned usable forms. For this survey 3 types of weights were developed: (1) a…

During the 1974 fall orientation, a questionnaire was administered to approximately 65 percent of the entering freshmen class at the University of South Carolina (USC). A total of 364 other institutions of higher education, including 44 universities, also participated in this continuing national study of higher education. This document presents a…